Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 April 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Health Services for the Blind and Vision Impaired: Vision Ireland
Mr. Chris White:
Regarding demographics, while it is the largest group we see, with the population ageing, that group will only get bigger. We will see, not quite a tsunami, but an ever-increasing demand from people with AMD coming through our doors as our population ages. The preventable blindness point is also interesting. Ten or 12 years ago there was no real treatment for AMD. While unfortunately it involves an injection into the eye, it is now possible to stabilise and retain the vision a person has with an eye injection, but it requires detection. The earlier the detection and the earlier the treatment, the greater the sense of vision a person with AMD will retain.
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